Research Methods in Law

Edited by Deborah Healey, Michael Jacobs, Rhonda L. Smith

Offering a broad-ranging examination of competition law methodologies worldwide, this Handbook focuses on the economic foundations of competition law. Expert contributors consider the procedural and substantive application of competition...

Ernst H. Ballin

Written by Ernst Hirsch Ballin, this original Advanced Introduction uncovers the foundations of legal research methods, an area of legal scholarship distinctly lacking in standardisation. The author shows how such methods differ along cr...

Edited by Ryan Whalen

‘This book situates computational analysis of law among overlapping research areas and deepens one’s sense of the field as vitally distinct. The field is equally transnational and transubstantive, and the legal texts of interest are tran...

Kees van den Bos

‘This textbook is a very accessible and practical guide to empirical legal research. The non-technical explanations of interviews, surveys and experiments make it easy to understand the pros and cons of each method and to know when to us...

Edited by Jean d’Aspremont

‘These volumes are a must-have collection of scholarly texts in the field of history and theory of international law. Jean d’Aspremont brings them together with a vision on our discipline at large. This selection of the most seminal and ...

Edited by Rossana Deplano

‘This volume acts as an important and provocative invitation to international legal scholars to take non-doctrinal methods seriously. The various contributions, as diverse as they are, come together in a call for methodological self-refl...

Following 9/11, increased attention has been given to the place of religion in the public sphere. Across the world, Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline and scholars have grappled with the meaning and effect of legal texts ...

Mark Thomas, Lucy Cradduck

'This book offers brilliant new insights on the intellectual, physical and emotional aspects of mooting. In an era of growing emphasis on experiential learning and innovation in legal education, Thomas and Cradduck have given law teacher...

Jan M. Broekman

‘A central thesis of this book is its recognition of the double definition of the term “word”, which has also been neglected in studies of law and language relations. A “word” exists in analog and digital types of language, whereas conve...

Edited by Rob van Gestel, Andreas Lienhard

‘This book, while providing some answers, poses even more questions – and this is indeed its greatest strength. The reader unfamiliar with the subject will find in the book a helpful introduction to the many problems it attempts to addre...

Edited by Hans-W. Micklitz, Anne-Lise Sibony, Fabrizio Esposito

‘Consumer law has truly matured as an object of scholarly inquiry in recent years, in particular (but not only) through the embrace of sophisticated insights into real-life consumer behaviour as a basis for regulatory design. This book b...

Edited by Vanessa Mak, Eric Tjong Tjin Tai, Anna Berlee

The use of data in society has seen an exponential growth in recent years. Data science, the field of research concerned with understanding and analyzing data, aims to find ways to operationalize data so that it can be beneficially used ...